Book Awards

South Carolina Book Awards

February 13, 2012:  The Book Award Committees are finalizing the materials to use in book award voting.  The ballots you may download will be available sometime tomorrow.  But the four links links to the Survey Monkey tool used to tally votes are ready for use!  If you have created your own system or ballot for your school-level voting, and are ready to submit your votes, you may use the links below.

General reminders:

• Vote collection data ENDS midnight, March 1, 2012
• Schools conduct their own election, tally their results, and submit via the links below their vote totals.
• Schools may participate in any level that is applicable to their grade distribution (i.e. it is possible for a school that has grades k-8 in one building to participate in all four levels.)
• The general rule of thumb is as follows, and you may have overlapping in some cases:
• Picture Book Category – Primary Grades
• Children’s Book Category – Elementary Grades
• Junior Book Category – Middle or Junior High Grades
• Young Adult – High School Grades
• For a student’s vote to count, they must have read minimum three of the nominees.

The Survey Monkey Links are as follows:

SC Picture Book Award

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-12PBAvoting

SC Children’s Book Award

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-12CBAvoting

SC Junior Book Award

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-2012JBAvoting

SC Young Adult Book Award

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011-2012YABAvoting

Download Voting Resources:

2011 South Carolina Book Award Winners

Picture Book Award: Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery
Children’s Book Award: All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Junior Book Award: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Young Adult Book Award: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Purpose of Awards

The purposes of the South Carolina book awards are to encourage our students to read good quality contemporary literature and to honor the authors of the books annually chosen the favorites by student vote. The book award medals will be awarded to the winning authors the following year at the South Carolina Association of School Librarians annual conference.

Book Award Committee Information & Application

Book Award Guidelines and Criteria for Book Consideration

Book Award Banners (due postmarked Feb. 29, 2012)

SCBA Banner Rubric REV Dec2011 (shipping details here!) 

Book Award Items Order Form

Book Award Levels:

2012 – 2013 Book Award Nomines (pdf)

2011-2012 Book Award Nominee (pdf)

Picture Book Award

Children’s Book Award

Junior Book Award

Young Adult Book Award

South Carolina Book Awards History

The South Carolina book award program began in 1976 with the participation of sixteen schools. At the present time, there are approximately three hundred schools and more than 30,000 students participating in this program.

The original book award program was a children’s division for students in grades 3-6. Additional levels were gradually added, and with the inclusion of the Picture Book category in 2003, all students in grades k-12 can now participate.

Since the inception of the South Carolina Book Award program, SCASL members have provided leadership and volunteered many hours of service to make the program a success. Some highlights of the Book Award program are:

1976 – Children’s division begun – Edna Bedenbaugh, Chair
1980 – Young Adult division added – Sue Harden, Chair
1980 – First Executive Board Representative elected – Alleene Holland
1980 – Banners Program added – Debbie Stone and Alleene Holland, Co-chairs
1993 – Junior division added – Jan Sarratt, Chair
2003 – Picture Book division added – Joyce Moore, Chair

Book Award Logos:

The Book Award Committee is making the book award logos available to all members of SCASL. South Carolina school libraries can use SCASL logos without permission.

Updated: 12 March 2011